#Gyaan

Sep 19, 2021
6 min

Dear Batch of 2026

This letter has been penned by Dhawal M. and Ojas Chandaniha (Batch of 2025). The illustration is by Kajal Jamdare (Batch of 2025). To the incoming first years, First off, a big congratulations for cracking CLAT and making it into NLS. All those months and years of hard work and dreaming about being in the ‘top law school’ seems to have finally paid off. We apologise for sending out a welcome-letter weeks into your term. You see, we’re teen parents whose kids have been delive

Aug 28, 2021
4 min

Dear MPP08

This letter has been penned by Himani Chouhan and Aishwarya Tiwari (MPP Batch of 2022). The illustration is by Gunjan Jadiya (Batch of 2023). Dear MPP08, This meeting is being recorded for over a year now. Mics have been left unmuted, professors have walked in on us in breakout rooms mid-rant, zoom escaper has been discovered, and we’ve possibly made the best out of the limited digital space we’ve been confined to. However, we are beyond excited to tell you that we’re writing

Mar 12, 2021
5 min

Chutzpah

Prof. Nigam Nuggehalli graduated from NLSIU in 1997, and later returned to teach here as a Visiting Professor. He is currently Dean of BML Munjal University Law School. Prof. Nigam regularly writes a heartwarming series – ‘Letters to Law Students’, where he captures various facets of the law school experience. In this piece, he writes about the idea of chutzpah and how it makes a Lawschoolite stand out. The illustration was designed by Anshita Agrawal (Batch of 2023).[1] What

Jan 7, 2021
6 min

A Letter to Yamuna

This piece has been written by Anonymous. The artwork is by Gunjan Jadiya (Batch of 2023). Dear First Year Girls, I know that you have had limited interaction with your seniors due to the constraints of an online trimester, and in the absence of a cozy Yamuna night on the Annapurna terrace, I feel that this gyaan is slightly overdue, so hopefully, this Quirk article will suffice.[1] I remember my initial weeks at NLS and the self-doubt that came with it. I think I speak for m

Nov 4, 2019
7 min

Ah, To Be Young And In Love

This piece has been written by Anonymous. [Author’s note: This is in no way intended to be an indictment of law school relationships or patterns of behaviour. It is merely intended to be a social commentary on a law school phenomenon which I’ve observed over the course of my school run. It is, however, not a work of fiction, and characters, events, and incidences are not the product of the author’s imagination and not used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual per

Aug 30, 2019
6 min

The ‘Legit’ Breakdown of a ‘Scam’ Law School Course

This piece has been written by Sumit Chatterjee and Pallavi Khatri (Batch of 2022). Meme Credits: ‘Chitragupt’ (Batch of 2022). ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness’ – it was legit, it was a scam. Charles Dickens was truly prescient when he began his masterpiece by introducing the dichotomies that plague human life. And when we mean life, we literally mean all of it. But for now, let’s talk about Law Sch

Jul 5, 2019
5 min

Dear Juniors, Welcome to the Gyaan Culture

Quirk has a treasured collection of life, love, laughter and gyaan at Law School and this article is an introduction to all of that and more. It is a subset of the gyaan bootcamp that you will receive throughout your five years, but most commonly, and soon annoyingly, in your first year. The writers of this article have chosen to be anonymous because they do not wish for this to be seen as their Law School experience, but rather a collection of Law School experiences – someth

Mar 28, 2019
4 min

Nosedive

– On keeping up appearances and its impact on mental health. This piece has been written by Pallavi Khatri (Batch of 2022). I admit the Black Mirror episode ‘Nosedive’ articulated what I had failed to do for a long time now. Hence, I stole the title. Before assuming that this is going to be another sad rant coming from a worn-out Law Schoolite, just hear me out. I believe positive manners towards others are a good thing. Whatever our parents taught us, beginning from being po

Dec 12, 2018
5 min

A Long Walk to PESIT

This piece has been written by Shruti Kunisetty (Batch of 2022). To the uninitiated, PESIT idli [“Pesit”] refers to a famous idli stall on the Hosakerehalli Road (try pronouncing it) that sells idlis for 30 odd bucks. It’s open only between 4 and 6 am. To your average lawschoolite, it offers the perfect culmination to a long night of slogging. Here is what a typical Pesit plan for men looks like: Man 1: Bro, let’s go to Pesit! Man 2: Yeah, let’s! Here is how women plan to go

Dec 1, 2018
4 min

Disability vs. Diversability: Some Unsolicited Answers

This piece has been written by Anchal Bhatheja (Batch of 2023). Artwork by Priyanka Paul. Dear Potential Beholders, I will start off with introducing you to another rendition of the word disability. Just like what Robert M. Hensel once said, I too, “choose not to place dis in my ability.” I feel placing the idea of diversity in my ability defines me in a better manner. For, I choose to appreciate the things that are doable instead of lamenting over the tasks that are beyond

Nov 4, 2018
1 min

Quirk #MeToo Special Edition

We are proud to present the brand new Quirk #MeToo Special Edition. The edition has 5 brand new articles as well as a few old ones from our archives. The Edition itself can be accessed here #nls #sakhishah #perpretrators #lifeinnationallawschool #quirk #meghamehta #brandnew #powerdynamics #seniors #Gyaan #mentalhealth #nupurraut #metoorising #nationallawschool #muktajoshi #JwalikaBalaji #NLSIU #India #Smorgasbord #advice #padminibaruah #metoo #LawSchool #LakshmiNambiar #lifea

Sep 18, 2018
3 min

A Fetish for Excellence

This piece has been written by Parv Kaushik (Batch of 2021). With the last of the Univs behind us, it is important for us to reassess what we’ve taken these Univs to symbolise. As an institution that has, over the years, churned out a plethora of people whom one would term “studly”, the bar was set pretty high. At some level, their achievements became more of a metric for self-evaluation. Being in the top 10 of your batch didn’t feel like so much of an objectively great achi

Aug 14, 2018
8 min

On McKinsey and Alt Careers: In Conversation with Spadika Jayaraj (Batch of 2016)

Spadika Jayaraj graduated from law school in 2016, and was a core member of Quirk during her time here. She went on to join McKinsey, a global consulting firm, with whom she worked for 2 years before moving to a start-up. Quirk asked her to share with us some of her experiences working with McKinsey. This interview was conducted by Radhika Goyal (Batch of 2019). Hi Spadika, tell us a little bit about your time in Law School. What committees were you a part of, what kind of ac

Jul 6, 2018
5 min

Everyone has read Corinne Cooper

This article has been written by Riddhi Rajeshwar Swami and Srobona Ghosh Dastidar (Batch of 2022). The first of the many pieces of unsolicited gyaan that I first received as soon as I stepped into law school was “Pass first trimester!” And, pray, what was the suggested modus operandi for that? “Study hard for Eco and History, and do not waste your time on scam courses *cough* Torts *cough*. The dichotomous idea of scam and legit courses is so ingrained in law school that it

May 30, 2018
5 min

Notes From A Foreign Field

This article has been written by Abhinav Sekhri (Batch of 2014). It captures some of his experiences of pursuing an LLM from Harvard and provides some food for thought. We, at Quirk, wish the best of luck to those applying for an LLM and hope to hear about your experiences too! Law School, like much else, is a place of endless loops and cyclic events. Or, to put it more simply, it is another place where the same shit keeps happening over and over again for most parts. One of

Apr 8, 2018
7 min

What to Expect When You’re Expecting: Day Zero Edition

This article has been written by Mukta Joshi (Batch of 2019) and Aniruddh Nigam (Batch of 2019). In most crappy movies (looking at you, Lagaan), there is an increasingly common and tremendously infuriating plot device called a Deus Ex Machina. To put it simply (that is, to plagiarise a definition), a Deus Ex Machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the unexpected intervention of a new event. Its function can be to re

Mar 27, 2018
4 min

Letter from a Former Relationship Dishrag

This article has been written by Megha Mehta (Batch of 2019). One of the side-effects of living away in a small, gated community isolated from urban civilization by dense patches of forest and bad roads is that it is easy to form toxic and often co-dependent attachments to others living within the same community. This is especially because a lot of us do not have access to home, hence we rely upon rank outsiders, about whose childhood and real background we have no informatio

Mar 17, 2018
4 min

Letter from a Former Cool Girl™

This author has chosen to remain anonymous as the goal of this article is to point out a systemic issue, rather than relating a personal experience. The author hopes to strike a chord with multiple women, and in doing so believes that the author could be anyone really. “She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, an

Jan 19, 2018
7 min

The Beginner’s Guide to LFT-ing: Grand Budapest Hotel

This piece was written by Megha Mehta (Batch of 2019). Neither traditional culture nor the pop variety teaches women how to be alone. Most, if not all, organized religions are pretty explicit in their disapproval of single/widowed/divorced women (or women of any sort really, but that’s another discussion). Even in literary/cinematic imagination, the Sexy Lone Male WolfTM is a much more popular trope than the Batshit Cat LadyTM . To be a woman and to be alone is to be a failur

Nov 3, 2017
4 min

Can We Please Ask for Extension?

This article has been written by Sarangan Rajeshkumar (Batch of 2018) One job that I have faithfully performed for the last four years is being my batch’s class representative. As college designations go, it isn’t the fanciest, the most prestigious or even the one that receives the most hate. (The last one will always be reserved for MessComm). It does, however, keep me occupied and every once in a while it makes me feel like I am doing more in college than playing Age of Emp